It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.

A smile is the universal welcome.

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.

The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.

The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force.

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke

A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.

Laughter puts your brain, your central nervous system and your whole being into a state of free play.

One sin seldom mentioned is that of killing time.

I am dumb when it comes to learning dance steps.

All stress is ultimately related to loss or the fear of loss.

It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.

Satan was a blunderer ... who made a stupendous failure. If he had succeeded, we should all have been worshipping him, and his portrait would have been more flattering.

[On Napoleon:] The Emperor is too grand for anybody to tell him the truth, everybody who surrounds him flatters him all day long.

If I do decide one day to stop acting, I just hate the idea of people going: 'Oh, did you ever do anything else besides that Twilight thing?'

For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those that do evil.

You've got to have dreams to keep you going.

My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.